Some 222 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded nationwide over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 19,952 including 4,778 active cases and 16 deaths, according to the National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.“Of the new con…
The two biggest economies and largest carbon polluters in the world announced separate financial attacks on climate change Tuesday.Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country will no longer fund coal-fired power plants abroad, surprising the world on…
The World Health Organization is issuing new guidelines on improving global air quality, which it says could save many of the seven million lives that are lost each year to pollution.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says inhaling dirty a…
The delta variant of the coronavirus has overtaken all other variants of concern, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.”Less than 1% each of alpha, beta and gamma are currently circulating. It’s really predominantly delta around the world,” said …
Fast-food giant McDonald’s said Tuesday it would phase out plastic toys from its signature Happy Meals by 2025.”Starting now, and phased in across the globe by the end of 2025, our ambition is that every toy sold in a Happy
The Pfizer and BioNTech drug companies said Monday that lower dose shots of their two-dose COVID-19 vaccine are safe and effective for five-to-11-year-old children.The U.S. company and its German partner BioNTech said trials showed the vaccine was well…
Within 40 years, more than 800,000 Australians — twice as many as now — will be living with dementia, unless a cure is found, according to a new government-sponsored report.Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia.A new
A report in The Guardian says U.S. physicians treating unvaccinated patients are “succumbing to compassion fatigue” as a fourth surge of COVID-19 cases sweeps across the country.Dr. Michelle Shu, a 29-year-old emergency medicine resident, said medical …
